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Best, "cheap" DDOS protection provider in Europe
We can see a lot of sweet deals here at LET and pretty much every VPS provider offers DDoS Protection, but of course protection wont be the same across all of them. So far I didnt got any DDoS on my current projects, one project is getting really popular and my current VPS isnt fast enough. I need to buy better VPS, but then also if app gets bigger I can make some "problems" for competition and maybe some angry kids will DDoS me so I'm searching for solution that wont give me problems in future.
Cheap is relative, but I'm speaking about 10-40euro / month offers. If I will be happy then I can move all my projects there and then I will look at solutions for like 150-200 euro/month - will it change your recommendation?
Few years ago one provider (nazwa.pl) turned off my server, they told me it is because of DDoS attacks so in the end I paid for something that didn't work. They didn't block internet, they completely turned off my server. They called it "advanced DDoS protection with hardware firewall and high availability". They still call it like that on their website and they are #2 biggest provider in Poland, because its VERY difficult to escape from them if you have domains there, but that's another story. That's why I'm skeptical about all these claims and I don't want to lose money once again.
There's couple of providers that I used, but I didn't got any DDoS on my new projects so that's why I would like to hear good and bad things about them from you guys.
- NetCup. They claim up to 2Tb/s mitigation for root servers. My current fav provider, because their perf/price ratio is so good. I hate their cancel policy tho.
- Hetzner. Long time ago they nullrouted, after that they introduced some proper DDoS Protection, but many people found it too slow to react, how its now?
- PHP-Friends. I heard 0 complaints about them. Awesome perf/price ratio like NetCup.
- OVH. In pretty much every forum they are rated #1 DDoS protected VPS provider, but many people found out, that they don't filter anything in their own network and support takes weeks to respond. Did they fix it? Is this a huge problem in your experience?
- BuyVM + $3 DDoS protection addon sound sweet. Idk if they use Magic Transit or path.net right now.
- x4b.net. They give you tunnel that routes traffic to your existing servers. Overkill or maybe that's proper protection that I should invest in?
- Nexusbytes. They claim they only have basic DDoS protection (and I like their honesty), but maybe even this basic protection is enough?
Tell me about your experience with these VPS providers or DDoS protection providers. How fast they react? What was the biggest attack which they mitigated? Are they nullrouting? Maybe I should look into other provider?
tl;dr
Europe. Web Server. Which VPS (ex. Netcup) /anti-DDoS (ex. x4b) provider mitigates the best? Offers(VPS+tunnel/VPS/whatever would be the best) up to 40 euro / month.
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Francisco
Overkill for your target of best. Does that make us better than the best?
My production sites are on php-friends.de
Love them.
php-friends is good.
Let us know which specs you need and I might be able to come up with something
That makes everybody else not the best
I see on your site that you can also cache static stuff. If I would use x4b then I should still use Cloudflare? Could I do load balancing between servers like with Cloudflare?
Right now I think mostly about Netcup (2x RS 2000 G9) and PHP-Friends (vServer L). With netcup I would need to load balance ofc, but I can do it with cloudflare at minimal cost.
I'm super happy with Netcup, but PHP-Friends bigger servers (especially this 8 core vServer) have amazing value. At least that's what I see from specs. There's one thing that worries me - I see that PHP-Friends site is in german. Idk if you guys are german speakers (I'm not) so could I communicate with support in English? How long are you customers and did you had any problem with them? Could you tell/show me what options are available in their control panel?
We don't tell our customers what to do. However do note Layer 7 mitigation with other Web Accelerators in play is not a supported configuration and does have known issues.
Source: https://www.x4b.net/kb/WebsiteSetup
Yes
Source: https://www.x4b.net/features
I tested various providers for a Web application. My tests included a run of loader.io, the free plan, which is quite limited. While Netcup never claimed L7 protection AFAIK, they were the only provider that null routed me because of a loader.io run. Or, basically, a "higher load" simulation. Make what you want with this, but it made me decide against them. This was a root vDedi server, not a VPS.
I use php-friends for the last 10 months, they do provide support during office hours german time & can provide support in english. For problems, they do like 20 min maintenance every 6 months or so to update their node, apart from that no issues so far, they just give you a solusvm login when you sign up so not sure what options you are looking for.
Been using netcup for several years now but I don't think I ever got ddosed so I'm not sure how good their protection would be. On the other hand, Hetzner servers are great but their ddos protection isn't the best.
PHP-Friends has my vouch as well, been using them for nearly a year now and except an issue from a week ago where one of their carriers died and the IPv4 addresses stopped working for a few minutes, they have been really great. I don't think I got attacked with them either although others seem to have had a good experience regarding that which is why I picked them too.
OVH would probably be the cheapest and their protection works great most of the time depending what kind of services are you running. If it's a TCP service then the protection should be stellar, been using them for over a decade and they never failed.
BuyVM improved a lot as well since the last time I've used them besides, you can basically get direct help from the owner himself and he will always try to find a way to help you out.
I only used Nexusbytes for a while and I never needed ddos protection with them as for x4b I never used them since I'd rather not have remote protection but I'm positive their services are great and they are true professionals if you are in need of remote ddos protection. They expanded a lot over the years.
Best or cheapest, I guess that's where you need to make a decision.
Netcup, PHP-Friends and all those are good but when you're targeted too often and too big, it may come to an end soon. Only provider which accepts pretty much all DDoS is OVH afaik. Honestly, I doubt you'll be soon big enough that you have to worry about it with either of those. PHP-Friends should suit your needs just as good as OVH or x4b.